SpaceClaim is Awesome
From the title, you could infer my feelings towards this nifty tool offered by Ansys. There are some who are still sticking to DesignModeler as their cleanup tool of choice. To those, I would implore you to give SpaceClaim a try. I believe the reason why some hold back from switching is due to the sunk cost fallacy . Learning DesignModeler has been such a significant learning commitment that giving it up becomes difficult. A little known fact: the software could be accessed for free without feature restriction for personal education via the Ansys Student . Say you get an IGES file and it only imports as surfaces. You could stitch it together to create a solid, then save it as a STL file. Same as DesignModeler, SpaceClaim plays nice inside Ansys Workbench. After going through the tutorials , here are my top tips I find useful: 1. Navigation - Alternative 2 I was tired of the indentation on my finger as I use the middle mouse button (MMB). My preference is Alternative 2 which uses ...